Oil Spills
The Oilers closed the season by playing two District 10 Class AA
qualifiers...Jeremy Amendola's 26-yard run with 3:26 left gave te Oilers their win over Lakeview...Jarrod DePriest (pictured at right) in Game 8 became the first Oiler to rush for 100 yards on the season; he gained 105 yards on 11 carries...
QB Tiger LaVerde (pictured at left) was the Oilers' leading rusher with 326 yards on 85 carries and 4 TDs. He also completed 47 of 99 passes for 645 yards and 6 touchdowns with 5 Interceptions. That gave him 971 yards total offense, including 157 against Kennedy, 161 against Warren and 161 against Hickory...
Brown was the top receiver with 32 catches for 413 yards and a team-leading five TDs...DePriest averaged 20.4 yards on 7 catches...
The Oilers' had a balanced ground game behind LaVerde, DePriest (45-242), sophomores Jeremy Amendola (61-228) and Mike Stephens (52-209) and senior Jeff McDowell (56-186)...
The Franklin game (at Oil City) was interrupted for about an hour by a rainstorm...
The Oilers forced six turnovers, including two INTs by LaVerde, nad made seven tackles for lossses -- two apiece by Greg Lewis, Eric Streczywilk and Jeff Piendel and the other by Todd Oliver -- in the win against Kennedy Christian...LaVerde led the Oilers with three INTs...
Greenville's Andy Blatt, who would become the state all-time TD leader, rished for 214 yards on 17 carries and scored five touchdowns against the Oilers...
All-Conference
First team -- NG Tim Reed
Second team -- WR Brendan Brown, OT Josh Husband, DB Greg Lewis
Honorable mention -- QB Tiger LaVerde
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